I thought that Dark Eden, by Patrick Carmen, was a most enjoyable read. The plot line features a group of seven children who are struck with completely debilitating fears. These seven children are all the same age, and are all seeing the same therapist, Dr. Stevens. Dr. Stevens recommends a place called Fort Eden to help them with their terror. The story follows one of the children, Will, a fifteen year old teenager who already knows everything about the other people- and Fort Eden. The reason behind this is that he has hacked Dr. Stevenss computer and borrowed the files on it.
Kiss of Death, by Lauren Henderson, was a wonderfully written book with its own twist on a traditional type of story line. Having failed to realize it was the last book in a series when I chose this book, I would hardly have figured out that it happened to be a sequence if I hadn't checked. Noted, I did wonder why it left so much unexplained. This book is about the adventures of Scarlett Wakefield while on a school trip to Edinburgh. This school trip turns out to be no pleasure retreat however, for someone's out to get Scarlett.
Boondocks is a collection of short stories about the back lots or boondocks of the USA. All of the stories hold a delightful taste of the strange and mysterious, the super natural and extraterrestrial. There is quite a diversity between each story though. In some there are the demons who help man kind to help themselves. However there are some in which demons wish nothing better than to cause havoc and destruction. Some stories are about how the strange and the super natural save humans because it is the right thing to do.
